Author Archives: Dilwyn

QL Assembly eMagazine

Norman Dunbar writes:

Issue 6 of the QL Assembly eMagazine is now, finally, available for download.

Things are a little different now. I’m hosting all the code in the eMagazine, as well as the source (LaTeX) for the eMagazine itself on GitHUb. Each issue is available as a “release”. Don’t worry, if you happen to go to the old download location, you’ll see a message telling you where to go to get the latest issue.

All the releases are here:

https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageMagazine/releases

while the latest edition, Issue 6, is at

https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageMagazine/releases/tag/Issue_6

You will most likely be wanting the pdf and the “CODE.zip” links, unless you want to see how the eMagazine is put together, in which case, feel freeto help yourself to one or other of the “SourceCode” links.

Computer One Assembler Manual

Thanks to Oliver Fink in Germany, a PDF of the Computer One Assembler software manual, plus another page relating to the linker software, is available to download from the Assembler section on my website:http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/asm/index.html

Other Prowess Apps Added

Thanks to a successful appeal for copies of missing Prowess utilities, I’ve also been able to add Pflist, Pwfile and Fsearch (thanks to Simon Balderson for the latter) plus a more recent version of Pfdata (thanks to Bob Spelten jr.) to the Prowess Page on my site at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/prowess/index.html

Prowess eBooks

Derek Stewart has made eBooks of the main four manuals and programming documents for Prowess and Proforma.

Download them in .epub, .mobi, .pdf and .azw3 formats for your favourite eBook reader from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/index.html If anyone has any more Prowess apps not yet preserved on my site, or more recent versions than already on there, please send them to me to add. Best way is to email them as zipped attachments. Prowess page is at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/prowess/index.html

Prowess Sbasic Interface Sources

Wolfgang Lenerz has kindly supplied the source files and manuals for thr Prowess Sbasic Programming Interface. Get them from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/prowess/index.html

SMSQ/E v3.34

SMSQE 3.34 is out.

Mostly bugfixes for Q68, but also a new SSJOB command courtesy of Per Witte, who also extended the JOB_NAME command to work in compiled programs. Marcel Kilgus contributed updated QL-SD drivers, while Wolfgang Lenerz provided some improvements and bug fixers for the Q68 and Q40/Q60. Downloads of the binaries and sources plus list of changes at http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/

SMSQ/E and SBASIC Manual

Version 1.06 of the SMSQ/E and SBASIC guide is now available to download from my website at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/index.html . The manual may be read online (HTML file) or downloaded in a variety of formats (including eBook formats) from that page. The SMSQ/E operating system sources and binaries are available to download free of charge from Wolfgang Lenerz’s site at http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/

QL Wifi

We’ve already brought you news of Johan Engdahl’s QL wifi interface:

Back in November, Johan sent the following news about it to the “Sinclair QL For Everyone” group on Facebook:
“For those of you that has bought my QLwifi adapter, for QL as well as ZX Spectrum 128K/IF1, and for those of you that has not yet done so 🙂
“To ease your life with the adapter I´m in the progress of coding server and client applications for easy file transfer to/from your machine and other useful stuff.
“To be able to support both Linux and Windows, for the server part, I´m coding portable C++ code, which will work on both platforms.
“I´m hoping that first release would be available around X-mas / New Year.
“Files for Linux and Windows will be binaries ready to run, for ZX it´ll be TAP and for QL it´ll be MDV image.”
Johan has also announced he can supply 3D printed aftermarket QL riser legs (QL feet!) at €5 per pair of feet plus postage and packing, and also he’s created a 3D model of the MDV collar which, according to Sinclair, is a mandatory modification and is supposed to go under the rightmost screw on MDV2 to prevent the lid from touching the microdrive thus misaligning the head. He provided the .STL file to download from the Sinclair QL For Everyone group on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/30699392074/

DJ’s Sinclair QL Pages On Facebook

I’ve set up a QL page of my own on Facebook. What I hope to do is provide snippets of news, links to useful QL blogs and websites and so on.

It’s called simply DJ’s Sinclair QL Pages. Find it on Facebook by searching for djsinclairql or go to fb.me/djsinclairql or https://www.facebook.com/djsinclairql/ If you like the page, click on Like so that the likes spread via newsfeeds and increase awareness of the page and the QL in general.

FX CAST Atari ST Core for MISTer and SMSQ/E

Marjus Dettweiller in Switzerland reports that with the availability of FX CAST, a cycle accurate 68000 CPU and cycle accurate chipset for the FPGA based MISTer system (information and download at http://atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=34554 – emulates Atari ST/STFM only, no STE functionality and no blitter), it is now known that the Atari version of SMSQ/E works on it. DD disk read/write is via .MSA disk image.

Get FX68K from https://github.com/ijor/fx68k The Atari version of SMSQ/E is available to download from Wolfgang Lenerz’s website at http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/

QUANTA

QL Users And Tinkerers Association